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Topic: CASTS or Stirrup Interface? (Read 1154 times)

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. - James. D. Nicoll

If it's for combat, just use an anthrodrone. It'll have its weaknesses, of course, but a properly piloted hotsim anthrodrone wearing normal armor (which Wakshaani has stated can indeed be worn, it just doesn't stack with the drone's base armor) can be hard to hurt and have a lot of Initiative, while having a very high dice pool for most actions. And, you know, be waaaaay cheaper and potentially even legal.

If it's social infiltration... I'd say it's a tie between an anthrodrone with Realistic Features 4 and a rigged human. Though... The drone failing means people realize its a drone and getting pissed. If people realize it's basically a meat puppet, oh god will they react badly. Expect HTR, and civilians having nightmares. Not that you'd be bothered by that, you monster.

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The main benefit of a metahuman meatpuppet drone over an anthromorphic drone is that the biodrone passes astral scans. No matter how good the Realistic Features, it is an autosuccess for someone looking on the Astral to see that it is a drone, not a person.

And it is hard to tell that the metahuman biodrone's nature if the controller is constantly jumped in, such as if an AI is using an elf's implanted commlink as their home node.

That's true. Even a heavily augmented biodrone still is (technically) a living creature. And there's an idea for you... An AI living inside an RCC or something always jumped into a metahuman biodrone. Who needs CFD? Let's do this drek analog (not really)!

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